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Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

The warmongers want us to go to war in Syria now. How many people will keep supporting President Trump if he goes along with this? We don’t need to be the world’s policemen. We need to fix our own problems. Please tell me that President Trump is not buying into this nonsense. The cycle of constant war needs to end. The manufacturers of the instruments of war need to find a new occupation. False flags are now understood as events that most definitely do occur. For example, it has been publicly acknowledged that the Gulf of Tonkin was a false flag leading to the USA entrance into the Vietnam War. Let’s not buy in to the narrative being pre-packaged for us. I do not consent to this war.

When the Ruby Ridge siege happened in the summer of 1992, I had just moved away from the Northwest United States. I had previously been living in Missoula, Montana, near the Idaho border. I had been to Idaho several times, mainly to visit the National Forests and the Jerry Johnson Hot Springs. I imagine that if I had still been living in Montana, I would have heard a lot more about the siege at Ruby Ridge while it was happening. As it was, I was living in Arkansas and not very in touch with the news. The family I was living with only turned on the antenna TV once a week when Star Trek: The Next Generation was airing new episodes. I vaguely remember hearing about Ruby Ridge, but I didn’t know the details until Backwoods Home magazine published an editorial about Ruby Ridge later that year. My aunt had given me a gift subscription to this new magazine, Backwoods Home. It was one of the best gifts anyone ever gave me, because my aunt understood me better than most people.

When I read the editorial, it explained how government agents had shot an unarmed woman holding a baby while standing in the doorway of her home. They had also shot a ten-year-old boy in the back while he was running away. All of this started from a sting operation carried out by a government agent selling Randy Weaver a sawed-off shotgun. Randy wasn’t even particularly interested in buying a sawed-off shotgun, but he believed that the government agent was an ordinary guy who really needed the money from the sale. Then Weaver refused to show up for his court dates for this ridiculous entrapment arrest.

I assumed things would change in America after I read this editorial. Americans wouldn’t stand for such outrageous abuse of power by the government, right? No, actually, they stood for that and more. The government did its’ part to quell any possible outrage or organized resistance to the atrocities committed by the US government at Ruby Ridge and Waco by carrying out the false flag against militias in Oklahoma City. This seemed to divert the general American public’s attention for a while.

I was living in 1992 with a family that was somewhat like Randy Weaver’s family, although they weren’t as well-equipped with firearms. They were into raising their own food and living off the land. I am glad I had this experience. At the time, I wanted to live that way myself. It started out as more of out of a concern for the environment. I followed environmental activism to its logical conclusion of making as little impact personally on the earth. Eventually I realized that this was a pointless endeavor for many reasons, the primary one being that one can make zero impact by being dead so one’s life should be dedicated to more than simply making no impact. Now I am willing to live the self-sufficient lifestyle and have made preparations to do so in the case of societal collapse. But I am certainly not going to do so out of some environmental concern, when so-called prominent environmentalists live extravagant lifestyles in multi-million dollar mansions. It became clear to me that most of the environmental leaders were charlatans.

Jess Walter’s book Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family was a decent explanation of what happened at Ruby Ridge. It presented Randy Weaver in a more realistic light, neither as totally a hero nor as a villain or kook. The government not only created the Ruby Ridge situation through entrapment, it clearly over-reacted and outright murdered and child and his mother. There was no reason for this situation to escalate to the point that it did. Walter’s book does explain to some extent the government viewpoint that led to this ridiculous stance of thinking they had to win at all costs against this American family.

–Virginia Reed, young surviving member of the Donner Party, regarding her experience

When most people think of the Donner Party, they think of the eating of human flesh to which some member resorted out of desperation. That is part of the story, but the whole story is fascinating from beginning to end. I have read several books about the Donner Party. Ordeal by Hunger gives an excellent overview: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542429.Ordeal_by_HungerDesperate Passage is a newer book and branches out in to other areas, such as a chapter detailing various times in history when humans have had to resort to eating dead companions to survive. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1132808.Desperate_Passage?from_search=true The two books together are excellent, since they highlight different parts of the journey.

Before they ever got to the mountains that stranded them in 1846 over the winter with the first snowfall, many adventures occurred which make the story of the Donner Party fascinating just as a tale of the pioneer journey regardless of its ending. The group was one of the last parties to leave Missouri, so they were already behind many of the other wagon trains. However, their true downfall occurred when they were duped by a charlatan, Lansford Hastings. Hastings wanted to make a name for himself by developing a shortcut west over the Wasatch Mountains. Because this path was new, the Donner Party found that they had to cut a path through the wild. Also, they were unprepared to travel a very dry stretch and ended up having to abandon much of their livestock and supplies, contributing to the later disaster. The “shortcut” ended up adding precious time to their journey, instead of making it faster. They only missed getting over the Sierra Nevada mountains before the first early snowfall by one day.

When the Uruguayan rugby team was stranded from a plane crash in the Andes in 1972, they also resorted eventually to eating human flesh. They were Catholic and were very concerned that this would be a sin. When they went to confess the sin after some of them were rescued, they were told by a priest that it would have been a sin if they had refused to keep themselves alive by this method since it was the only method available. It was not a sin to eat the dead flesh when there was nothing else to eat. They only ate fellow passengers who had died naturally. The rugby players also prayed the Rosary together every night, as did many of their mothers back in Uruguay. Their mothers credit the Rosary with their sons’ miraculous survival and rescue. The story of the role of the Rosary in the Andes rugby survivors is explained in Piers Paul Read’s book Alive, as well as portrayed in the movie by the same name. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401514.Alive

Both of these stories are essentially about the human spirit and our ability to survive in even the worst situations. In both cases, stories are told about the will to survive and how giving up was a factor in the demise of some of the members of both parties. To me this is the more interesting part of both the story of the Donner Party and the Andes Crash Survivors.

It’s been a while since I studied the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City, but I am familiar with the very credible idea that the bombing of Oklahoma City being pinned on a so-called “militia” member was a calculated strategy to divert and defuse the growing outraged Patriot movement that arose after the government-caused atrocities at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

I heard the filmmakers of “A Noble Lie” give an interview years ago when this film first came out. There are a number of anomalies and downright suspicious activities that certainly cast doubt on the official government story of what happened on 4/19/1995 in Oklahoma City. That is no surprise. The deception in the United States government is so deep. Fortunately, we have brave filmmakers who are willing to specialize on one lie at a time. I recently purchased this film, but it looks like you can also watch it on YouTube.